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Clifford Geertz Quotes

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006

Topics

Beginning End Done Write Finished

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Me Control Choices Movies Make

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

Song You Artist Want Will Launch

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

Life Success Beauty Religion Losing

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

I Am Roots Thought Christian Without

Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.

Romesh Gunesekera

Cricket World More Over Fans Common

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.

Life Time Voice Feel Mean Stage

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

Work People Win Political America

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

Know Possible Jesus Christ Through

I feel like a cliche.

Jonathan Carroll

Feel I Feel Like Like I Feel Cliche

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friends You Real Real Friends Front

'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

People Me World Wolf Acting Stage

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